Thank you all for your advice. Sadly, this is just one of my problems. Your advices are helpful and I am trying to apply them but sometimes, my negative feelings can be overwhelming...

If practicing metta and friendliness is not working, perhaps it is time to be equanimous. http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/17/79/1a1779398556615d98d38f5f0e4c6fd0.jpg Give them an inch, they will want a mile. I ignored them and they came closer to disrupt by peering at my mother's grave dis...

A traveler came upon an old farmer hoeing in his field beside the road. Eager to rest his feet, the wanderer hailed the countryman, who seemed happy enough to straighten his back and talk for a moment. "What sort of people live in the next town?" asked the stranger. "What were the pe...

It's almost a year since I walked away with a lighter heart. I am afraid that I've to seek for advice again because of rude people. A lot of things have happened and I found time to visit my mom's grave to reminisce and grieve in silence. However, I never expected a woman to stare at me grieving an...

It's almost a year since I walked away with a lighter heart. I am afraid that I've to seek for advice again because of rude people. A lot of things have happened and I found time to visit my mom's grave to reminisce and grieve in silence. However, I never expected a woman to stare at me grieving and...

Hi all I have frequently encountered rude sales people, who were loud and reluctant to serve (for less than 10 mins). How do you cope? If I reacted by writing a complaint letter, can I say that its their Kamma - they were rude in the first place. However, I had encountered these people so often (un...

Kataññu Suttas: Gratitude "I tell you, monks, there are two people who are not easy to repay. Which two? Your mother & father. Even if you were to carry your mother on one shoulder & your father on the other shoulder for 100 years, and were to look after them by anointing, massaging, b...

I had some experience with rude people, unpleasant situation actually they are the local thugs (small time gangster) who often come to my workplace and ask money, etc. They come almost every week. and also some thugs who pretend to be local reporter who threaten to write bad things about the compan...

Your mother dont suffer no more. To believe such things could easy lead to "to celebrate the death", but that is simply silly (a kind of runaway and ignoring). Its much better to wish her a good rebirth and the best possibilities in here curent existence. Remembering the mother : A being ...

Peoples with bounded eyes are running Leaded by fear and seeking of happyness They collide with anyone who is on their road They dont want to harm anyone They want just to join happyness and stop running The wise one, without bounded eyes Can see running peoples The wise one have compassion of them...

Peoples with bounded eyes are running Leaded by fear and seeking of happyness They collide with anyone who is on their road They dont want to harm anyone They want just to join happyness and stop running The wise one, without bounded eyes Can see running peoples The wise one have compassion of them...

Thank you all for your advice, I really appreciate it.

Hi, HWP. When people give me a hard time I like to reflect on this sutta: "Monks, some might speak to you using speech that is timely or untimely; monks, some might speak to you according to truth or falsely; monks, some might speak to you gently or harshly; monks, some might speak to you with...

Actually, if my complaints were illogical, the companies would have had given me short shrift. Besides, I have written letters of compliment when I received good service. There is nothing wrong, espeial when you also writte letters of gratefulness in regard of good service. How ever, people do not ...

Caraka wrote:

Is there some type of Kamma that will make people detest you just by looking?

Do you consider yourself disgusting?

No, but I am not pretty.